There's a bio in the book
"The People Came....Osborne CO, KS...vol. 2...book 2"
for John TRANSUE
m. Catherine WHITAKER (b. 1843)
d/o Squire & Dorcas Whitaker

John & Catherine are the parents of 7 children,
all born before they came to Kansas....John was
a Civil war vet, who came to Kansas in the 1880's...
homesteaded Valley Township, Osborne CO, KS....